I'm having the same issue. Also the display scaling option amd added for the csgo profile is not working. With both of them, you can change them but you will always get black bars ingame. This is quite an issue for the cs community

EDIT: it seems some people are stuck on stretched aswell. very weird as my issue is that im stuck on black bars. I can get my windows to stretch if i drop the resolution, but not games.

Having the same problem end up having to reinstall windows after uninstalling reinstalling :-( the last time i did install i did use 17.7.1 But at that point things was messed up so i reinstalled windows 10 in doing so i did not install 17.7.2 i put 17.7.1 on all is fine again this is not the first time GPU Scaling mode has been messed up last time had to wait ages for a new driver fix. AMD sort this out not ages like last time next update plz

I did a clean install of 17.7.2 on my Windows 10 x64 Pro w/ latest updates. Card is a 4GB RX480.

Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) stretches to fill my 16:9 monitor instead of running in it's original (non-16:9) aspect ratio. Tried it both with GPU Scaling ON and OFF. Before this I was running 17.2.1 and I had GPU scaling set to *OFF*, yet Sid Meier's Pirates! ran in its original aspect ratio.

There is something weird going on with the drivers. I really wish I went with Nvidia. Even my generic Intel graphics on my laptop runs all of my games in their original aspect ratio.

I have a fix for this problem for whoever wants to know. What I did was uninstalled my current drivers using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and I don't know if this made a difference, but I ran this as an administrator. After everything is uninstalled and everything looks pretty much ugly, go to the AMD support and drivers page where you go to download your drivers. After this, put in your info where it says to manually select your drivers and fill all of it in and display results. Don't download the current driver that pops up because it wont work. On the right side of the current page that you're on, there will be helpful links in orange colors. One of those links says Download Previous Drivers & Software and you click that. There will now be a list of previous drivers and the driver that I installed that allowed me to use black bars in CS:GO is Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.1 Optional and after you install your drivers back fully, it should work, well, for me anyways it did, if not, make sure your gpu scaling and your settings are correct for black bars and stretched.

It's a fix to those who want to use the proper GPU scaling for certain games including me, I didnt say it was a fix for the newest driver, but a fix to problem that he can't use the proper 4:3 scaling so to him, it is a fix, to you, it's not and for me, it is. =)

I'm also running into this issue - going to full screen stretches everything, instead of leaving it in its correct aspect ratio. I had an older version of the amd software installed - which apparently had the same problem. I upgraded to see if it would fix it - but the latest version - 17.7.2 - apparently doesn't either.

I haven't been able to figure out how to downgrade the version to 17.7.1 - I've tried downloading ad installing it, but it doesn't actually seem to change.. Does anyone know how I can go about fixing this? It's really frustrating that I have several older games that I effectively can't play on my good laptop - that my older laptop is able to handle no problem.

This amd developers are just idiot, sorry but you regret buying amd graphics card. i will not buy again. I cannot play cs:go beacuse of your gpu scaling. 17.7.2 is not working and when i want to downgrade, and install lower version, my screen is showing little black and white squares all around the screen and i cannot read anything. I really regret buying amd

Hey I found A Solution for the scaling mode, I was trying the latest beta but it just gave me black screen so I revert back to the latest stable version (17.7.2), but then I realize that my scaling mode doesn't work and force me to play on stretched aspect ratio when playing 4:3 resolution games, I kept switching the mode but it didn't work, so here's what I've done (on windows 10 x64)

I uninstalled the driver via control panel, I click on the "change" button and the uninstaller came up with 2 options, Uninstall and Clean Uninstall, I chose Clean Uninstall then after it finished it's job I restart the pc, double checked that everything is gone including the vulkan, then I re-install the stable driver again (17.7.2), after it finished installing, it ask for restart so I did it. After restarting, I open the radeon settings and before changing anything else I toggled off the VSR and GPU scaling option, closed radeon settings, restart my pc again, then toggled them back on, then I tried switching the scaling mode to all 3 mode and my 4:3 resolution game did switched it's scaling mode correctly following the scaling mode I chose at the radeon settings

I dunno if this will work for you guys, but hey it work for me so it's worth a try

Well, if I find out another solution I'll mention it here since I occasionally got asked by the owner of an internet cafe where I usually hang out the update the drivers of the PCs in there and if I find there's a problem with the updated driver I have to revert them back

Oh and let's hope AMD would fix this problem ASAP. I mean, this should be a simple problem for their Technicians isn't it? so they shouldn't leave this problem hanging for too long before they lose their precious customers

17.11.1...still doesn't work on this, so 17.10.1 remains the last version it worked on.

I'm sure the issue is the same for everyone else, gpu scaling isn't working on games (I've tried with avp classic 2000, csgo, and blade runner), but on the desktop the behaviour is the exact opposite, where it seems to be always ON, even if GPU scaling clearly says "OFF".

Mine's working normally (version 17.7.2 stable), so I think it could be that the drivers scaling mode function is broken only in certain GPUs or monitors. I have a RX 460 2GB and a LG HDMI monitor with 1600x900 60Hz screen, If CPU's also counted then mine is AMD A10-7860K with R7..

I assumed that it may be the problem because of when I tried to install beta crimson driver (17.10.3) my screen went black when the display driver install process is starting, but my friend who have ryzen 7 with vega 64 can install it without problem, so i thought that maybe the scaling mode problem we have here could be because the driver is kinda broken for our hardware series

i found this thread a bit late, so i made a thread that still needs to be accepted.

but well yes, as long my thread is not posted in the forum, maybe i can try here to seek for help.

i have amd 17.11.4 and my problem is.. gpu scaling isnt working for me (was it really fixed before? but now, at least for me, it isnt working) . all game i play with different ration are full screen and ugly stretched.

the only thing worked was: when i change my display screen resolution manually, then suddenly gpu scaling is working for me desktop.

so lets say i have full hd. and i enable gpu scaling centered. i open a game, and result: nothing, only full screen and ugly stretching.

but when i have gpu scaling enabled centered (same settings as in the example before, nothing changed here), and now i change my display screen resolution to 1600x900, then suddenly my desktop is really centered 1600x900 without stretching. there are black bars filling left, right, top and bottom. this way i can start games in 1600x900 (in this case).

my old gforce gpu didnt have problems like that. my gforce changed my screen ratio automatic when i opened a game with different ratio/resolution.

how do i fix this, so my amd will auto change my ratio to centered depending on the game'ss ratio automatic, without changing desktop resolution manually every time?

(edit: oh and yes, i already tried to set up "cnetered scaling" in the game rpofiles, too. but still same negative result)

(edit 2: okay just saw that even my answers to threads need to be accepted first. im using amd forums the first time, didnt know it lol. well i have to wait, as it seems.)